Posted on 01/31/2025 8:36:32 PM PST by hardspunned
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has dramatically increased the amount of water flowing from two dams in Tulare County, sending massive flows down river channels toward farmlands in the San Joaquin Valley.
Federal records show that water releases from Terminus Dam at Lake Kaweah and Schafer Dam at Lake Success jumped early Friday morning.
The sudden increase occurred four days after President Trump said on social media that the U.S. military had “entered” California and “TURNED ON THE WATER.” Trump also vowed during a visit to Los Angeles last week to “open up the valves and pumps” in California to deliver more water.
According to federal data, the flow from Terminus Dam into the Kaweah River near Visalia increased from 57 cubic feet per second to more than 1,500 on Friday morning. The flow from Lake Success near Porterville into the Tule River increased from 105 cubic feet per second to 990.
The Army Corps of Engineers is “conducting controlled water releases” from the two dams, said Tyler Stalker, a spokesperson for the Corps in Sacramento. “The action is being coordinated with local officials. The releases are within the capacity of the downstream waterways.”
Responding to questions about the reasons for the sudden increase in water flow, Gene Pawlik, a spokesperson at the Corps’ headquarters in Washington, said in an email that the action was “consistent with the direction” in Trump’s recent executive order to enact “emergency measures to provide water resources” in California.
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Watch the water.
This is what a strong president does, when the governor of a state appears to have forgotten how to govern the most basic of utilities.
The governor is still fiddle farting around trying to recalibrate his state DEI programs to solve the problem.
All the usual suspects were saying this was not true, the military didn’t open any water.
They asked the new spokes girl about it, trying to make fun of her. She said the Army Corp of Engineers did it.
https://www.spk-wc.usace.army.mil/reports/release_changes.html
In Tulare Lake Basin
Well undammit
I hope they can do something about the mayor of LA. She is getting worse by the day.
But what about the minnow?
It's only some of the coastal counties (yes, where most of the people live) that vote Democrat.
Dam!
:)
It’s the same in Oregon, Angelino.
Trump won most of Oregon except for the vile blue rodent counties around the filthy, shxthole Portland. The rest of us are sane.
California is vote fraud central. The people there didn’t vote for this, the politicians voted for them. Even when they win a vote a Communist judge erases the change ( prop 187 ).
Thanks! USACE was a logical guess.
And it wasn’t like they entered California - they’ve been in CA for decades. LOL.
Mayor Bass planned on $500,000 salaried lesbians, DEI pronouns,
and looking at fires through an “equity lens” would put out fires.
That didnt work out.
Now they’re trying water.
PDJT trying to refill ancient Tulare Lake?!? It refilled naturally last year after 130 years and a lot of rain.. Water from those 2 rivers (Tule & Kaweah) doesn’t go anywhere near L.A. (or the ocean). Ag water.
https://www.geographyrealm.com/tulare-lake-california/
Army Corps of Engineers guy on his supposed day off but now working overtime:
“It’s always one dam thing after another.”
Water aside, did the LA Times just “report” news?
When Tulare Lake reappeared two years ago, was there any attempt to tap into that water before it disappeared again?
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